For the 49th time in his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career and the sixth time at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Ryan Newman, No. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet, will lead the 43-car field to the green flag.
Newman’s pole-winning effort for the Sylvania 300 is his third Coors Light pole of the 2011 season.
Kasey Kahne (Toyota), Brian Vickers (Toyota), Greg Biffle (Ford) and Kurt Busch (Dodge) complete the top-five starters of the second race for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Kevin Harvick will start the No. 29 Budweiser Designated Driver Chevrolet from the sixth position Sunday afternoon at the Magic Mile. Four-time NSCS champion Jeff Gordon, No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet, will roll on in seventh position with five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson in the 10th starting position behind the wheel of the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet.
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 HAAS AUTOMATION CHEVROLET – POLE WINNER:
TALK ABOUT YOUR QUALIFYING EFFORT:
“I don’t think I have seen that much drama go into the last five cars in qualifying in my ten or eleven years experience, just to have the little situation we did with the rain, the drizzle. It is a tough situation. I was thinking about it when I was in the car. On one hand your thinking well the other guys had sprinkle, some of the did, some of them didn’t but in the end you were supposed to have dry track conditions or at least it not be raining when we go out on the race track, so I understand where Jimmie ( Johnson) came from when he pulled in. My track was dry, I don’t know that it was any faster to answer that question; I think we picked up about the same amount of speed as the other guys did earlier in qualifying. Really proud of the team to back up what we did hear at least on Friday from the spring race and give the Hass Automation a good starting spot.”
POS CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 2 4 Kasey Kahne Toyota 3 83 Brian Vickers Toyota 4 16 Greg Biffle Ford 5 22 Kurt Busch Dodge 6 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 7 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet 8 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 9 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 10 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 11 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 12 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 13 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford 14 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet 15 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota 16 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge 17 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet 18 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 19 0 David Reutimann Toyota 20 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 21 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet 22 36 Dave Blaney Chevrolet 23 99 Carl Edwards Ford 24 20 Joey Logano Toyota 25 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 26 6 David Ragan Ford 27 17 Matt Kenseth Ford 28 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 29 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford 30 51 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 31 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet 32 38 J.J. Yeley Ford 33 34 David Gilliland Ford 34 30 David Stremme Chevrolet 35 66 Michael McDowell Toyota 36 7 Robby Gordon Dodge 37 13 Casey Mears Toyota 38 55 Travis Kvapil Ford 39 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 40 32 Mike Bliss Ford 41 37 Josh Wise Ford 42 71 Andy Lally+* Ford 43 46 Scott Speed Ford
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